Top Links
- Introducing OpenSilverShowcase.com: 200+ Live .NET UI Samples, Free for the Community (OpenSilver Team)
- Automate your project with GitHub Models in Actions (Kevin Lewis)
- Visual Studio Productivity Tips and Tricks | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Leslie Richardson)
- Enhancing .NET MAUI App Appearance Using Lottie Animations (Héctor Pérez)
- The new Dependabot NuGet updater: 65% faster with native .NET (Jamie Magee & Brett Forsgren)
- Automate your open-source dependency scanning with Advanced Security (Laura Jiang)
Web & Cloud Development
- Implementing k-Nearest Neighbors Regression Using JavaScript (James McCaffrey)
- Animating our Grid (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- 5 Methods to Keep Docker Container Running for Debugging (James Walker)
- Frontend Development Trends 2025: Top Trends, Tools & Frameworks You Need to Know (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
- Passkey support for ASP.NET Core identity: Exploring the .NET 10 preview – Part 6 (Andrew Lock)
- WebStorm 2025.2: TypeScript-Go Language Server Support, Baseline Support, Bun Improvements, and More (David Watson)
- The Problems With React Server Components (Loraine Lawson)
- Building React Apps with Bun: A Modern Development Experience (Peter Mbanugo)
- Creating a Calendar with BoxLang – Part JavaScript (Raymond Camden)
- How to integration test exception handlers in ASP.NET Core (Thomas Ardal)
- How to Create a Virtual Green Screen Using the Vonage Video API (Richard Sabbarton)
- Best Practices of Web Application Security in 2025 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
- Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access (Irina Nechaeva)
- How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast (Patrick Thier)
Visual Studio, C++ & .NET
- InfluxDB and C# (Bryan Hogan)
- Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.11 Release Notes (Microsoft Learn)
- How can I read more than 4GB of data from a file in a single call to ReadFile? (Raymond Chen)
- Dynamically Update C++ syntax using Next Edit Suggestions (Sinem Akinci)
- C# 14 Extension Members: Also Known as Extension Everything (NDepend Team)
- Syncfusion Excel Library: A Powerful Alternative to Aspose.Cells (Vinoth Kumar Sundara Moorthy)
- Day 19: Scheduling with DNA: Using GAs for Class and Work Timetables (Chris Woodruff)
AI
- How Docker MCP Toolkit Works with VS Code Copilot Agent Mode (Hamida Rebaï)
- What’s new in Copilot Studio: July 2025 (Kendra Springer)
- Black Forest Labs FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] Now Available in Azure AI Foundry (Naomi Moneypenny)
- What we’re optimizing ChatGPT for (OpenAI Team)
- What Is MCP? Model Context Protocol Explained Simply (Ioannis Moustakis)
- Microsoft.Extensions.AI–Part IV–Telemetry integration and Microsoft.Extensions.AI –Part V–Chat history (Bart Wullems)
- What is Langflow? The Visual Framework to Build LLM Apps Without Writing Code (Mahesh Chand)
- I Built a Custom MCP Server in Golang To Make Claude Smarter—Here’s How (Rajashree M.)
- Microsoft study shows jobs most — and least — impacted by generative AI (Taylor Soper)
- NotebookLM is now available to younger users. (Tin-Yun Ho)
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Introducing Approvals in Pulumi ESC (Claire Gaestel)
- Cross-pollination as a strategic advantage for forward-thinking organizations (Phoebe Sajor)
Screencasts & Videos
- On .NET Live | Supercharge your SQL development with modern .NET (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- Zune vs. iPod: What Microsoft Got Right (and Wrong) and AI Model Life Cycle: From Planning to Deployment to Retirement (Frank LaVigne)
- 16 Cool GitHub Repos You WILL Use (no pressure) (The Coding Sloth)
- How to use AI models in your GitHub Actions workflows (GitHub Team)
- Random.Code() – More Refactoring Work in AutoDeconstruct (Jason Bock)
Podcasts
- InfoQ Podcast: The Financial Architecture of Software with Ian Miell (Ian Miell)
- The PowerShell Podcast – From EntraAuth to PSConfEU with Fred Weinmann (James Petty)
- The Productive C# Podcast – Want to Level Up Faster in Your Career? Say YES to These Two Questions (Andrea Angella)
- Google Cloud Security Podcast Episode #237 – Making Security Personal at the Speed and Scale of TikTok (Anton A. Chuvakin)
- PPP 473 | Beyond the Hype: The Science of Impactful Leadership, with Jeffrey Hull & Margaret Moore (Andy Kaufman)
- The Changelog News Podcast Episode #155 – The smell of vibe coding (Jerod Santo)
- Only Malware in the Building Episode #14 – Work from home, malware included (Selena Larson, Keith Mularski & Dave Bittner)
- Python Bytes Podcast Episode #443 – Patching Multiprocessing (Michael Kennedy & Brian Okken)
- Grammar Girl Podcast – How pronouns reveal our psychology. How’d we get our alphabet? Tabagogox. (Mignon Fogarty & Valerie Fridland)
- The Stack Overflow Podcast – Being unambiguous in what you want: the software engineer in a vibe coding world (Phoebe Sajor)
- When Knowledge Hoarding Destroys Team Dynamics | Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (Vasco Duarte & Florian Georgescu)
- Getting Black Women Paid Podcast – Legal Must-Knows for Business Owners: Don’t Build Without This (with Temi Siyanbade) (‘Tine Zekis)
- Syntax Podcast Episode #925 – Scott & CJ’s Fave Productivity Apps & Web Apps (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski)
Community & Events
- Amazon lays off staff and restructures Wondery podcast unit (Taylor Soper)
- September 2025 in Philly: The Biggest Events, Fests & Exhibitions (Visit Philly)
- Microsoft cuts another 40 jobs in Washington state, continuing layoffs amid AI investment surge (Todd Bishop)
Database
- How to Use the psql Command-Line Tool with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server (Robert Sheldon)
- Mastering SQL VIEWs: Syntax, Use Cases, and Best Practices (Joe Celko)
- When Your Relational Database Isn’t the Right Tool Anymore (Heather Downing)
PowerShell
Miscellaneous
- Announcing Files Preview v3.9.14 (Files Team)
- Current Events (Chris Given)
More Link Collections
- Interesting links of the week 2025-32 (Michael Eaton)
- Daily Reading List – August 4, 2025 (#601) (Richard Seroter)
- Things That Caught My Attention Last Week – August 4 (Peter Ritchie)
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025) (Danilo Poccia)
- The .NET News Daily Issue #254 (Jasen)
The Geek Shelf
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# and .NET (Alvin Ashcraft) – Referral link